Martin Kottbusch
Product Lead @Zalando
Experience
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
5 months Berlin, Germany
Project Lead - Product Management
heycar Group
heycar is a leading multinational used cars platform with corporate shareholders like Volkswagen, Allianz, Mercedes-Benz, Banco Santander.
- Designed and built frontstage eCommerce journeys and supporting backstage customer journeys
- Requirements creation and management for all product aspects: Core user experience (online), supporting business processes and service design (online, offline and hybrid)
- Project management for country rollouts, aligning business, product and tech workstreams to assure timely delivery
- Business strategy, commercia/revenue model, rollout planning
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
1 year 3 months Berlin, Germany
Senior Product Manager
MVP Factory
- Product Management lead working with MVP Factory team on a Personal Finance Management and Welbeing App
- Exploration and validation of product and user experience concept
- Target group refinement, user journey mapping, prototyping and concept testing, product vision and roadmap
- Business model validation and monetization options
- Technical product concept - target architecture, prioritization and development team setup
Oct 2019 - Aug 2021
1 year 11 months Berlin, Germany
Chief Product Officer
kollex GmbH
kollex is a Corporate Startup and joint venture created and backed by some of the biggest beverage industry market players like Coca Cola, Krombacher, Bitburger and Rotkäppchen-Mumm.
- Leading a team of Designers (UX/UI) and Product Managers
- Design and development of a B2B platform product for the food and beverage market, merging 2 distinctive Apps into 1
- Managing the overall Product: Mobile & Web Apps used by close to 100 Merchants with thousands of B2B Customers
- Established the kollex Product Innovation Lab, introduced innovation and ideation methods
- Initially freelance Product and Venture Coach introducing squads, agile methods, product roadmap, processes & planning
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
1 year Berlin, Germany
Product and Venture Coach
Körber Digital
Körber Digital is the Corporate Accelerator and internal Company Builder of Körber Group, one of Germany's largest machine manufacturers. The unit was created with the support of McKinsey as an ideation and innovation center to build internal Startups.
- Supported POs and Venture Teams at early stages. Guiding them from ideation phase (value innovation discovery) to MVP
- Design and MVP launch of a digital process twin for production optimization based on algorithms which predict settings
- Concept Design, Test and Validation of a Digital Market Place and Trading Platform for the Tissue Industry
- MVP concept and launch of an augmented reality solution for pharma producers. Self-improving solution learning from data.
- UX Strategy, Design and Product Launch of a sensor data enabled Web Application for Producers. Helping them to reduce waste, understand production issues and receive concrete recommendations
May 2016 - Sep 2018
2 years 5 months Berlin, Germany
Head of Product
Smartfrog
Smartfrog (now part of Canary Group) is a +$60M funded startup, a Consumer IoT-SaaS pioneer and a fast-growing category leader.
- Created an IoT Platform and devices for the connected home with a team of Product Owners, UX Designers and Product Managers
- Headed up Software Development until CTO was hired (6 months)
- Designed, developed and optimized Mobile Apps, Web App, IP Camera (with industrial designer partner), SaaS Cloud Platform
- B2C E-Commerce Web Shop design and development, B2B Partner integrations into the platform
- Won IFA preview award 2017 for "most innovative product"
Director Consulting and GM Latin America
BT Telconsult
- Acquired and delivered consultancy projects in the telecommunications sector with focus on Latin America market
- Worked with incumbent telecom operators as well as financial investors and new market entries
- Mostly delivered product and tech expertise in Consulting projects (IPTV, Product Portfolio optimisation, platform design)
- Led the business processes practice
VP Product and Marketing
Deutsche Telekom - Click and Buy Group
- Established and led agile product and development teams combined with product marketing.
- Scaled a mature payment platform and e-wallet both technically and commercially. The platform was used by more than 15.000 Merchants (incl. iTunes) and 10 million Consumers globally
- Technical integration of Clickandbuy into the Deutsche Telekom "MyWallet", a SIM-card based secure mobile wallet.
- Developed and managed Mobile App, Web App, Platform Architecture with APIs, Payment Gateway, Cloud Architecture
Germany
Director Products & Services
Telefónica Group
- Established and led a product team to build up a mobile network operator in Germany (new market entry).
- Launched a complete mobile product portfolio: Voice, Data, Content Portal, Handsets and Sim Cards in just 6 months.
- Responsible for all technical and commercial product aspects from product engineering to product marketing.
- Later launched the brand "Telefónica" in the German market along with a full portfolio of Internet Service Provider products.
Director Products
dtms AG
- Lead a team of product managers, sales engineers and Product Marketing
- Created mobile payment, mobile web applications and directory services to integrate with 3rd party content services and applications.
Summary
Guided by empathy and a getting things done attitude. I love to work with open-minded, high-energy teams. Putting user experience first I help teams to create digital products and platforms advancing from prototypes to product-market-fit and scaling.
Languages
English
Advanced
German
Advanced
Education
May 2016 - Sep 2018